Celebrating Theology Faculty from the University of Nottingham: Mary Cunningham

Today I want to tell you a bit about my other supervisor, Dr Mary Cunningham. Mary is a lecturer in Church History here at the University of Nottingham, teaching classes on general church history, asceticism, Mary the Mother of God, and more. Her primary foci are Byzantine History (she is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church) and Mary the Mother of God. (It should also be noted that Mary is not related to one of our other faculty members, Dr Conor Cunningham.)

Mary did her undergraduate studies at Harvard University in Comparative Religion, focusing primarily on Byzantine theology and Medieval Greek. She then went on to do her Master’s and PhD at the University of Birmingham in the UK.

Bibliography

MARY B. CUNNINGHAM, 2012. ‘The Place of the Jesus Prayer in the Philokalia’. In: BROCK BINGAMAN AND BRADLEY NASSIF, ed., The Philokalia: A Classic Text of Orthodox Spirituality Oxford University Press. 195-202

CUNNINGHAM, MARY B., 2011. ‘The use of the Protevangelion of James in eighth-century homilies on the Mother of God’. In: CUNNINGHAM, MARY B. AND BRUBAKER, LESLIE, ed., The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium: Texts and Images Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. 163-78

CUNNINGHAM, MARY B. AND BRUBAKER, LESLIE, ed., 2011. The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium: Texts and Images Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.

CUNNINGHAM, MARY B., 2004. ‘The letter and the spirit: some problems in transmitting patristic texts to a modern audience’. In: M. MULLETT, ed., Metaphrastes, or Gained in Translation Belfast: Queen’s University Press. 28-38

CUNNINGHAM, MARY B., 2004. ‘The meeting of the old and the new: the typology of Mary the Theotokos in Byzantine homilies and hymns’. In: R.N. SWANSON, ed., Studies in Church History: The Church and Mary 39.Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press. 52-62

I hope you’ve enjoyed Mary’s videos and will check out some of her published work. Mary is an excellent scholar who seeks to do historical theology, that is, she seeks to study and understand the history of Christianity in its past and contemporary theological contexts and implications. It is an honour to have her as one of my supervisors.